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Business Briefs: Children’s Minnesota, PrairieCare, Landmark Recovery, Helping Hands Family, Pinnacle Treatment Centers, Stepping Stone
Children’s Minnesota Partners With PrairieCare for Inpatient Unit Leadership
Children’s Minnesota has announced a partnership with PrairieCare in which the latter will provide “programmatic guidance and joint clinical leadership” for Children’s Minnesota’s inpatient mental health unit that is slated to open in the fall.
Prairie Care physician executive Ryan Williams, MD, has been appointed medical director of inpatient psychiatry for the new unit.
Children’s Minnesota projects that the new inpatient unit will serve about 1000 children and adolescents per year. The facility will include 22 inpatient psychiatric beds at the system’s St. Paul hospital and be staffed by a multi-disciplinary care team of psychiatrists, psychologists, program therapists, nurses, occupational therapists, and music therapists.
Landmark Recovery Opens Treatment Center in Tennessee
Landmark Recovery announced that it has opened a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center in East Tennessee. The facility, known as Landmark Recovery of Knoxville, will offer inpatient and outpatient addiction recovery services, drug detox programs, therapy, and counseling for men and women.
The treatment center has a 48-bed capacity and will work with most major insurers.
Founded in 2016, Landmark Recovery serves communities in Kentucky, Indiana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Its sister company, Praxis by Landmark Recovery, serves the Medicaid population.
Helping Hands Family Expands in New Jersey
Helping Hands Family (HHF), a provider of applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy for children with autism, announced that it has expanded its presence in New Jersey with the addition of services in Monmouth and Middlesex counties.
HHF provides services at 20 locations across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware, and the company said in a news release that it plans to expand into Connecticut in the fall. HHF offers ABA therapy in its clinics, as well as in-home and school-based settings.
Pinnacle Treatment Centers Expands to North Carolina With Stepping Stone Acquisition
Pinnacle Treatment Centers, a provider of community-based drug and alcohol addiction treatment, announced recently that it has acquired Stepping Stone of North Carolina. The addition of Stepping Stone now expands the Pinnacle portfolio of facilities to 9 states.
Stepping Stone is a private outpatient opioid addiction treatment program with 2 locations. The treatment provider uses medication-assisted treatment in coordination with long-term counseling to treat opioid addiction. Stepping Stone will continue to operate under its existing name.
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